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Olga Rubin will square off against Mayra Cantuaria in the Invicta FC 60 headliner on Feb. 7.

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The all-female promotion announced the bantamweight bout — which could determine the division’s next title challenger for Jennifer Maia — on Wednesday. Invicta FC 60 takes place at Center Stage in Atlanta and will see Jackie Cataline face Jamie Edenden in the evening’s featherweight co-main event. The main card airs on CBS Sports Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, while prelims stream on Invicta FC’s YouTube channel and Facebook page beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT.

Five other bouts were confirmed for Invicta FC 60: Shanna Young vs. Katharina Lehner at bantamweight; Victoria Leonardo vs. Rayla Nascimento at flyweight; Liana Ferreira Pirosin vs. Shino VanHoose at strawweight; Giulliany Perea Vieira vs. Hope Holmes at atomweight and Joy Pendell vs. Krissa Timbs at featherweight.

A five-time Bellator MMA veteran, Rubin has gone 2-2 in her last four …

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Islam Makhachev and Nate Diaz allegedly had a cordial interaction months before nearly getting into a brawl last December.

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Makhachev defends his lightweight title against Arman Tsarukyan in the main event at UFC 311 on Jan. 18 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California. Makhachev was in Las Vegas for a promotional presser in December when he almost got into an altercation with Diaz, who was in town to corner teammate Kron Gracie the following weekend at UFC 310. Diaz and Makhachev’s teams threw water bottles at each other before security broke them up without letting it escalate further.

Nate Diaz and Team Makhachev threw water bottles at each other backstage 😳 #UFC310 pic.twitter.com/gr3TDd5abt

— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) December 7, 2024

While Makhachev didn’t have any animosity with Diaz, he believes Khabib Nurmagomedov might have had something to do with the incident. According to Makhachev, Diaz fli…